Comments on: What Comfortable Will Get You http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/08/31/what-comfortable-will-get-you/ Fascinating, Inspiring, Rewarding and Engaging kinded spirits. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Spike http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/08/31/what-comfortable-will-get-you/#comment-6227 Spike Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:20:17 +0000 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/what-comfortable-will-get-you/#comment-6227 Good point, John. GM is sticking their toes in the water here and there. It'll be interesting to see what happens next. Good point, John. GM is sticking their toes in the water here and there. It’ll be interesting to see what happens next.

]]> By: John Bell http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/08/31/what-comfortable-will-get-you/#comment-6225 John Bell Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:02:57 +0000 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/what-comfortable-will-get-you/#comment-6225 The product is stale (mid-tier car design is so inbred right now) and the marketing not much better. The best marketing thing I saw all year was when GM test drove Skys at BlogHer. There is a mention of internet-only advertising for the Pontiac G5 (another undifferentiated box on wheels)on Random Culture http://www.randomculture.com/random_culture/2006/08/say_hello_to_in.html The product is stale (mid-tier car design is so inbred right now) and the marketing not much better. The best marketing thing I saw all year was when GM test drove Skys at BlogHer. There is a mention of internet-only advertising for the Pontiac G5 (another undifferentiated box on wheels)on Random Culture
http://www.randomculture.com/random_culture/2006/08/say_hello_to_in.html

]]> By: olivier blanchard http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/08/31/what-comfortable-will-get-you/#comment-6211 olivier blanchard Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:19:20 +0000 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/what-comfortable-will-get-you/#comment-6211 "You can lead a horse to water... but you can't make him a duck." - Bruce Willis (I think.) Ford and GM are such HUGE companies that you can't really foster real change overnight. (Unless they're willing to clean house on an almost Biblical scale.) Bureaucracies, stale "leadership," cultural limitations... so many things get in the way of change that it's hard to get anything done. One step at a time. I'm seeing progress, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for a little while... But you make a good point. “You can lead a horse to water… but you can’t make him a duck.”

- Bruce Willis (I think.)

Ford and GM are such HUGE companies that you can’t really foster real change overnight. (Unless they’re willing to clean house on an almost Biblical scale.) Bureaucracies, stale “leadership,” cultural limitations… so many things get in the way of change that it’s hard to get anything done. One step at a time. I’m seeing progress, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt for a little while… But you make a good point.

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